Suzanne on the inspiration to write Those Whole Girls:
"Those Whole Girls was inspired by the feeling of wanting to be whole and confident and complete. I was reading Annie Dillard's An American Childhood , and she seemed so sure of her feelings. She seemed so different from the way I was as a child, when I always felt that I had to look two ways before I took a step. Also, I was playing with the language. I liked each word being one syllable. And the crunchiness of the consonants and the way the words felt in my mouth. I didn't write the song with any malice or bitterness. It's more that I would like to be that way one day."
"The Open Hand Book - Notes on her New Album", Musician, 1991, also published in Language and in the Limited Edition of 99.9F° (http://www.vega.net/handbook.htm) transcribed by Eric Szczerbinski

"Being a woman and a songwriter I would prefer to approach that ideal of being whole and being healthy, through the body rather than through love and romance, which a lot of women do, when they write about their romantic life. "Those Whole Girls (Run In Grace)" is clearly what I was aiming for. Sometimes I would get jealous of women who seem very powerful and who seem to be able to handle themselves gracefully. When I was a dancer it was hard for me to be like that. I would always pick things that were difficult for me to do, so I had the sense of struggling through it."
Interview with Fátima Castro Silva in "Urgent Whispers" (http://watermarks.vega.net/urgent_whispers/index.htm)